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meeting for the first time after obama's election victory the pair bonded immediately with obama finishing brennan's sentences by one account. among their points of whole hearted agreement was merit of a surgical approach to terrorist threats, the need to target quote, the metastasizing disease without destroying the surrounding tissue, as brennan put it, for which drones and hellfire missiles seemed the ideal tools. obama was initially balked to make brennan cia director because of his association with the agency's torture program. so instead the new president made him his assistant to counterterrorism with an office down the hall from the oval office. two years into the administration, everyone in the ritz carlton ballroom knew that the bulky irishman was the custodian of the president's kill list on which the chief executive and former constitutional law professor insisted on reserving the last word. making his final selections for execution as regularly scheduled tuesday afternoon meetings. you know, our president has his brutal side, a cia source cognizant of obama's involvement obser
meeting for the first time after obama's election victory the pair bonded immediately with obama finishing brennan's sentences by one account. among their points of whole hearted agreement was merit of a surgical approach to terrorist threats, the need to target quote, the metastasizing disease without destroying the surrounding tissue, as brennan put it, for which drones and hellfire missiles seemed the ideal tools. obama was initially balked to make brennan cia director because of his...
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clinton has been on television talking about obama, tea party, midterm elections, the global initiative, tony blair, tony blair talks about him, during the campaign he received invitations to campaign around the country those but would not be caught dead standing around with the media could not get enough and that the colt named to the most popular president in history you. really? although one man who was fatigue after his presidency because the public was exhausted by him and also gennifer flowers scandal when year before he began and he made a fool of himself only two years ago. fact bill clinton? what is going on? of the '90s for the last years in which you could say it work to the stock market's sky-high and bin laden was new to few outside our national security and give government was effectively serving through january 2001 when a hobbled president left office, and no one cared. their belly was full and houses was a gold mine in the cold war had been did come american troops were not going on foreign shores and even the majestic home run records of simi sosa and mark mcguire had
clinton has been on television talking about obama, tea party, midterm elections, the global initiative, tony blair, tony blair talks about him, during the campaign he received invitations to campaign around the country those but would not be caught dead standing around with the media could not get enough and that the colt named to the most popular president in history you. really? although one man who was fatigue after his presidency because the public was exhausted by him and also gennifer...
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we will review s president obama is doing we will review our commitment for the future and take into account what i just said of course and that is the need for the work to be done to mentor the afghans security forces. so that will be what will happen after the election campaign in afghanistan. >> very good. did the chief staff recommended an extra 2,000 troops should go to afghanistan? >> we've got 8,150 troops and nobody is suggesting sort of 10,000 troops. >> i'm trying to get to a dance or a note here. >> you've got to let me explain a variety of options were considered. for the mission we are doing at the moment, we have the troops on the ground. obviously as anybody who says as a commander they would like more troops and more equipment and more of everything but we are equipped to do the job we are doing at the moment. >> [inaudible] >> i'm sorry. we have agreed that we will consider that after the elections, probably august but possibly october because there could be a second round. and that is where we are and we are determined to do everything we can to a quick forces prope
we will review s president obama is doing we will review our commitment for the future and take into account what i just said of course and that is the need for the work to be done to mentor the afghans security forces. so that will be what will happen after the election campaign in afghanistan. >> very good. did the chief staff recommended an extra 2,000 troops should go to afghanistan? >> we've got 8,150 troops and nobody is suggesting sort of 10,000 troops. >> i'm trying to...
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in the pivot for barack obama winning the election is to allow, we are in ms demand it's only going to get worse from here. >> a little publishing insight from margie rosten a president and publisher of the conservative print. >> thank you very much. nice to see. >> some of the latest headlines surrounding the publishing of this past week. >> you're watching book tv, now peter blair henry argues that the u.s. to look to china, brazil, mexico, and other developing countries to develop its own plan for prosperity. this is about 50 minutes. >> growing up as a little boy on the isle of dominica, the early 1970's, the chairs the time spent on the porch of my grandmother central --, -- simpe porch. they're on 31b wait a little important cross at the southern edge of the city. i would sit in a brown fire leafing through the pages of encyclopedia britannica car reading bible stories and poring over back issues of national geographic for hours on end. as the needles, but lining the front yard and shading now world for both the son and people passing by. sense from grandma's kitchen. soup, bakin
in the pivot for barack obama winning the election is to allow, we are in ms demand it's only going to get worse from here. >> a little publishing insight from margie rosten a president and publisher of the conservative print. >> thank you very much. nice to see. >> some of the latest headlines surrounding the publishing of this past week. >> you're watching book tv, now peter blair henry argues that the u.s. to look to china, brazil, mexico, and other developing...
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be elected president. [applause] but my personal story is not so unique. the dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in america, but it's promise exists for all who come to our shores. and that includes nearly 7 million american muslims in our country today who, by the way, in joint income is an educational levels that are higher than the american average. moreover, freedom in america is indivisible from the freedom to practice once religion. that is why there is a mosque in every state in our union and over 1200 mosques within our borders. that is why the united states government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it. so, let there be no doubt-- [applause] let there be no doubt, it islam is a part of america. and i believe that america holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion or station in life, all of us share common aspirations, to live in peace and security, to get an education an
be elected president. [applause] but my personal story is not so unique. the dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in america, but it's promise exists for all who come to our shores. and that includes nearly 7 million american muslims in our country today who, by the way, in joint income is an educational levels that are higher than the american average. moreover, freedom in america is indivisible from the freedom to practice once religion. that is why there is a...
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and itÑi was on the night of obama's election that he returned to grant park and spoke to a huge, huge multiracial crowd of thousands and thousands of people. many of whom had a memory of grant park in 1968. some had no memory whatsoever. but i got a letter from somebody in the obama campaign. it was a message from david axelrod, the campaign manager, who saidÑi that the plan wasçpd deliberate to choose grant park as the place for the victory celebration, as a way to sort of the race the memories of the past of a time when democracy and free speech had died in the same place. so there is, on a very deep level here, and ongoing relationship between the '60s, the '90s, 2000s, 2008, and the future. one other thing that i want to say is that it could be that the '60s will repeat. i find that my worst inability many is the ability to predict. i didn't predict the fall of the soviet union. i don't know if many of you did, but i didn't really predict everything that happened after the '60s. i missed it. i faulted. but it does try to me that obama, now as president, could fall into some of t
and itÑi was on the night of obama's election that he returned to grant park and spoke to a huge, huge multiracial crowd of thousands and thousands of people. many of whom had a memory of grant park in 1968. some had no memory whatsoever. but i got a letter from somebody in the obama campaign. it was a message from david axelrod, the campaign manager, who saidÑi that the plan wasçpd deliberate to choose grant park as the place for the victory celebration, as a way to sort of the race the...
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had been elect elected. when barack obama was a presidential candidate he made a visit as you will recall to afghanistan. so maybe you were even on this trip. he made the decision to rather than first meets president karzai to stop off first in jalalabad and say hello to the governor. he wanted to be photographed leaving american troops on the field and he wanted to go where everybody went so they had to find a place that was reasonably secure and have an airfield big enough for the plaintive land, and therefore they took them to jalalabaintojalalabad to me to n soldiers. however, they said while you are here the first thing you must do is agree to the governor to embrace him and that was the picture that the afghans saw of barack obama. they took credit for that joke. that story had tremendous length because people interpreted that story in a number of ways. other places saw as people said to me if barack obama first comes to see the governor before he goes to see hamid karzai what does that mean? it means
had been elect elected. when barack obama was a presidential candidate he made a visit as you will recall to afghanistan. so maybe you were even on this trip. he made the decision to rather than first meets president karzai to stop off first in jalalabad and say hello to the governor. he wanted to be photographed leaving american troops on the field and he wanted to go where everybody went so they had to find a place that was reasonably secure and have an airfield big enough for the plaintive...
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not only because of the financial crisis but because of the election of barack obama, a president that many predicted would change the political game. only one year ago obama was featured as "time" magazine's person of the year and his campaign of hope was still on the minds of many americans. now admits setbacks on healthcare, the still limping economy and what some view as foreign policy failures, writers, pundits alike are taking swings at obama's first year. some argue that the problems are inherited from the last president who left challenges across-the-board. others say he has spent nearly a year getting it wrong. ... >> his reputation for producing thoughtful and genuinely analysis of international events daily are read by a foreign government agencies and fortune 500 companies. the articles run the gamut from national security facing obama's administration to information, warfare and cybersecurity. and possible outcomes of the latest pakistani india tensions that as a reader i can tell you there's always something to be learned from reading his reports. the urge to predict the
not only because of the financial crisis but because of the election of barack obama, a president that many predicted would change the political game. only one year ago obama was featured as "time" magazine's person of the year and his campaign of hope was still on the minds of many americans. now admits setbacks on healthcare, the still limping economy and what some view as foreign policy failures, writers, pundits alike are taking swings at obama's first year. some argue that the...
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to have them printed in its sales over the next two years of the obama presidency to make up the 2016 presidential race. of the republican captures control of the senate while controlling costs they will claim the american people have unambiguously rejected the president with his politics reid distributed economics and global reach and the nanny states. and then to push it to the next and then to read but the efforts to portray him with the of freeloaders into the global figure. [inaudible conversations] to spend glass afternoon everyone then director of the center at the atlantic council event on behalf of my colleagues i want to welcome all love you to our second event in today's on afghanistan. for obvious reasons the attention is now focused from our side even though we know washington bag gets distracted by the crisis of the day we felt it very critical that we continue our focus on afghanistan and in particular because looking at this country and if the surrounding neighbors over the last five and a half years we felt it period important we continue with the issues of the critic
to have them printed in its sales over the next two years of the obama presidency to make up the 2016 presidential race. of the republican captures control of the senate while controlling costs they will claim the american people have unambiguously rejected the president with his politics reid distributed economics and global reach and the nanny states. and then to push it to the next and then to read but the efforts to portray him with the of freeloaders into the global figure. [inaudible...
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i side as my responsibility and my conversations with then president-elect obama, that is what we discussed, that he would have to focus on the economic crisis here at home for obvious reasons but i would have to focus on the crisis of our reputation and our leadership around the world and what i found is in the same polling, research analyses-i read, people wanted what we want, they want good jobs, they want security, their values as they expressed it to researchers were very much in line with what the united states has always stood for but they had grown either negative about us or in different. is especially notable that young people didn't have an opinion to the united states was as a nation. they know our pop songs that they didn't know we save the world from fascism in world war ii, had long cold war, defeated international communism, made the world save for democracy and prosperity, they just didn't know and therefore our job was both to deal with the immediate, the crisis of confidence, the skepticism but also to try to begin rebuilding. certainly president obama had a great image a
i side as my responsibility and my conversations with then president-elect obama, that is what we discussed, that he would have to focus on the economic crisis here at home for obvious reasons but i would have to focus on the crisis of our reputation and our leadership around the world and what i found is in the same polling, research analyses-i read, people wanted what we want, they want good jobs, they want security, their values as they expressed it to researchers were very much in line with...
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political scientists monocles delivered whether obama was guaranteed election or defeat as a result of the economy. in the end, what we saw was the president was able to turn the cam pain from a referendum on people's attitudes about the economy at that moment, how they felt about their own lives and how they felt about his stewardship of the economy and turn the election debate into a choice of which of the two candidates individual voters that would do a better job for them in the future. which of these candidates understood your life that are then the other? it was an important strategic department. the other aspect about the economy is the degree to which with all the focus on the middle class in terms of messaging, hunkered over the focus was on the middle class in terms of a. this is an area i think if there was negligence on the part of both candidates, it was their inability to rise to the moment, to come forward with some fresh ideas, some new ideas. the kinds of problems george has described in the book have been with us for a long time. if there is a solutions, somebody woul
political scientists monocles delivered whether obama was guaranteed election or defeat as a result of the economy. in the end, what we saw was the president was able to turn the cam pain from a referendum on people's attitudes about the economy at that moment, how they felt about their own lives and how they felt about his stewardship of the economy and turn the election debate into a choice of which of the two candidates individual voters that would do a better job for them in the future....
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in fact he's campaigning for re-election on it. he insisted that al qaeda was on the road to defeat and the tide of war was receiving and that we should nation build at home. the president's commitment to this desperate fantasy even in the face of the islamic rise in the spread of al qaeda affiliates has led him to recount the danger of releasing guantÁnamo detainees to join the fight. unfortunately those dangers are all too real. in 2007 the u.s. released a former taliban commander who claim to have been a simple bread delivery men. in the interim he reestablished himself as a warlord in southern afghanistan one who pledged his allegiance to the islamic state in a group of insurgent fighters. over the years u.s. or says -- thankfully they killed him but only at risk to themselves. another such dangers example is the story of a guantÁnamo detainee who was recently transferred to the united kingdom. this was done without the concurrence of then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey. why did general dempsey disagree
in fact he's campaigning for re-election on it. he insisted that al qaeda was on the road to defeat and the tide of war was receiving and that we should nation build at home. the president's commitment to this desperate fantasy even in the face of the islamic rise in the spread of al qaeda affiliates has led him to recount the danger of releasing guantÁnamo detainees to join the fight. unfortunately those dangers are all too real. in 2007 the u.s. released a former taliban commander who claim...
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and so almost immediately, even before my election, people were saying well, once obama is elected, we'll get new roads, new schools, and so when i go back and i'm still broke -- [laughter] and i try to explain to them that i'm 99th in seniority, i'm not sure how that's going to play. they may kick me back out. but obviously it is a very touching, the degree to which people have responded. and i take that -- that role seriously in the sense that one of the biggest challenges that i'm going to face is making sure that i am singularly focused on serving the state of illinois. and the people who elected me and doing a good job. [applause] but that i'm also, even as i do that, am able and willing to give voice to the voiceless in the corridors of power, where necessary. [applause] so i'm going to be -- so i have no qualms about speaking out on issues that are of particular interest to africa or african-americans or latinos or other minorities that are not always well represented. but i, marly now as i begin my career, my whole orientation is to make sure i'm the best possible senator from the
and so almost immediately, even before my election, people were saying well, once obama is elected, we'll get new roads, new schools, and so when i go back and i'm still broke -- [laughter] and i try to explain to them that i'm 99th in seniority, i'm not sure how that's going to play. they may kick me back out. but obviously it is a very touching, the degree to which people have responded. and i take that -- that role seriously in the sense that one of the biggest challenges that i'm going to...
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after september 11 and the financial crisis in these that are racist for the election of barack obama was these crisis. someone like donald trump can exploit this nationalism. one of the things i talk about the hat realize was nationalism until i went to turkey and was learning about turkish nationalism. again, it's one of those things i'm surprised about. assassinated with turkish nationalism. was interesting about the history and country but i was at some level looking down on it. then i had a powerful day were a realist american patriotism was so similar to have been quite blind to where i was coming fr from. >> to that change your view on turkish nationalism? >> yes, first wally reminded me that i am someone even though i didn't think i was who can look down on foreign countries. this is where national identity is important. we don't inc. of it is looking down on others but we do. it's like these poor people who haven't gotten to where we are, they're on their way but they haven't got there yet. because we believe they can do it we can help them along. we don't think of it as bein
after september 11 and the financial crisis in these that are racist for the election of barack obama was these crisis. someone like donald trump can exploit this nationalism. one of the things i talk about the hat realize was nationalism until i went to turkey and was learning about turkish nationalism. again, it's one of those things i'm surprised about. assassinated with turkish nationalism. was interesting about the history and country but i was at some level looking down on it. then i had...
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what would actually happen if president obama won the election by 50% of the vote and john mccain won by 46,000 -- 46% of the vote. what if the ones that voted for john mccain did the same thing they're doing in libya to rebel against the government? would president obama and the united states military have to shut these riots down? gadhafi called them terrorists. these uprisings, they would not just overthrow the government but what would happen if this happened in the united states? people have been killed for protests. >> guest: thankfully we are living in the united states and we have a constitution. we have democracy. we have separation of powers. we have a peaceful transformation of government. we are not living in a place like libya. we have the freedom to demonstrate freely. we are blessed that we are living in the greatest country in the world. >> host: what are the black banners? >> guest: the black banners. i wanted to name the book the black banners because it shows what we know about al qaeda or how little we know about al qaeda. the black banners is from the prophet of i
what would actually happen if president obama won the election by 50% of the vote and john mccain won by 46,000 -- 46% of the vote. what if the ones that voted for john mccain did the same thing they're doing in libya to rebel against the government? would president obama and the united states military have to shut these riots down? gadhafi called them terrorists. these uprisings, they would not just overthrow the government but what would happen if this happened in the united states? people...
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during this time we sat down with president-elect obama. president-elect obama was the first one to use the word reset, in 2008. we told him about that and he said, on, why do we have to worry about something that happened in ancient history to get in the way of our interest. do the russians want iran to get a nuclear weapon? no. do the russians want terrorist to wins i when and afghanistan? what about nuclear weapons? .they want to reduce them, and we said yes. over the course of the policy review and we did a very thorough policy review, not a lot of evidence of that happening in washington right now. but we are process oriented folks. we came up with a simple idea that let's work with russia where our interests overlap. and what the president called win win outcomes. at least the difficult issues let's not link them. we deliberately did not do linkage and, their ego. off to the races. the fourth day of office for both of us. he was about to call president -- f the first time. i was going to me a joke about his hair, but i'm not going to
during this time we sat down with president-elect obama. president-elect obama was the first one to use the word reset, in 2008. we told him about that and he said, on, why do we have to worry about something that happened in ancient history to get in the way of our interest. do the russians want iran to get a nuclear weapon? no. do the russians want terrorist to wins i when and afghanistan? what about nuclear weapons? .they want to reduce them, and we said yes. over the course of the policy...
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hedges writes in "the death of the liberal class," election obama was more one more trial of illusion of substance but it was a skillful manipulation and betrayal of the public by corporate power elite. we mistook style and ethnicity, and advertising tactic pioneered by calvin klein for progressive politics in genuine change. john is in chicago. john, you're on booktv. >> caller: mr. hedges, so nice to listen to you. i do feel that you disparage the democracy in the united states. i've been working on a southside chicago for about 15 years and i think the promise that has been made, in my area, is substantial and been done in a democracy. i feel that obama has all sorts of problems. yet at the same time i think he is a leader, of significance. and i'm sorry that you seem to be against democracy being practiced in the united states. >> guest: well, i wish democracy was practice, and should become in the united states. and i certainly feel that i, as a writer any citizen, am fighting as hard as i can to reinstate democratic prerogatives, and democratic rights that have been taken from u
hedges writes in "the death of the liberal class," election obama was more one more trial of illusion of substance but it was a skillful manipulation and betrayal of the public by corporate power elite. we mistook style and ethnicity, and advertising tactic pioneered by calvin klein for progressive politics in genuine change. john is in chicago. john, you're on booktv. >> caller: mr. hedges, so nice to listen to you. i do feel that you disparage the democracy in the united...
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barack obama got elected while putting to desert the only church he had ever been a year. he took considerable care to pick one. it merely got him on elected to the church. since he hasn't been to a church at all and end of his inauguration speech which i attended with a good quotation from thomas kane so i'm not sure. the reasonable integrity and honesty and present ability he was able to face what elections and say i personally don't attend a church or have the belief -- he has every reason to think they would win. >> i think you're right the political right in this country clearly thinks the religious kind as well played. >> the christian right [inaudible] and the catholic right as well. i mean, who now thinks the catholic church has any moral right that they would be denied the sacrament they don't conform? i would like to see them try again. i really would like to see that. >> out side of this country that me just ask you given mouthpiece of all these ideas of the clash of civilizations what do you think, i do think this is a war of religion or are they as many wars o
barack obama got elected while putting to desert the only church he had ever been a year. he took considerable care to pick one. it merely got him on elected to the church. since he hasn't been to a church at all and end of his inauguration speech which i attended with a good quotation from thomas kane so i'm not sure. the reasonable integrity and honesty and present ability he was able to face what elections and say i personally don't attend a church or have the belief -- he has every reason...
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disposable median income is down $2000 since the day that barack obama got elected president. it's because of this massive uncertainty and the confusing rule and the cost of the rules that businesses have to share with their workers. that's plain and simple. the same of health care. every time you create a well-intended idea of obamacare, the simple fact is that imposes costs on businesses that force businesses to make employees have to share more than health care costs. you see it happening. hire detectable in higher co-pay marcottes employees. so the best kind of rules of the ones that protect whatever it is you are trying to protect but have the lowest possible cost so people have money in their pockets. that may give an example because your success makes environment both miserable. it's a radical one. they don't like it and it makes no sense to me. a growing economy allows us to spend money on protecting wild america. when our economy and quarter grew by 4.4% per year we generated revenue that allowed us to have the largest land purchasing program in the country to protect
disposable median income is down $2000 since the day that barack obama got elected president. it's because of this massive uncertainty and the confusing rule and the cost of the rules that businesses have to share with their workers. that's plain and simple. the same of health care. every time you create a well-intended idea of obamacare, the simple fact is that imposes costs on businesses that force businesses to make employees have to share more than health care costs. you see it happening....
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president-elect obama, by the way was the first person use the word reset in december 2008. andy told him about the history and he said come on man. i am the new guy. why do have to worry about something that happened in ancient history to get in the way of our interest? and he would turn to me and say, do the russians want iran to get a nuclear weapon? i said no, mr. president, they don't. so why can't we work together on this? do the russians want terrorists to win in afghanistan? no. and what about nuclear weapons? don't they want to reduce them? and we said yes. so in the course of this policy review, there is not a lot of evidence of that happening in washington these days but for better or ill we were joking about it. we were process oriented folks. and we came up with a pretty simple idea. that, let's work with russia where our interests overlap. and what the president called a win-win outcome. and at least of the difficult issues, let's not link them. we deliberately did not do linkage to other kinds of issues in us/russian relations. and there we go! off to the race
president-elect obama, by the way was the first person use the word reset in december 2008. andy told him about the history and he said come on man. i am the new guy. why do have to worry about something that happened in ancient history to get in the way of our interest? and he would turn to me and say, do the russians want iran to get a nuclear weapon? i said no, mr. president, they don't. so why can't we work together on this? do the russians want terrorists to win in afghanistan? no. and...
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national book award-winning award exams race, the obama presidency and the election of donald trump. and on bock tv afterwards at 10 p.m. craig shirley discusses life and political career of newt gingrich with tom davis and we wrap up our prime time programming at 11, with source ceo and found oar
national book award-winning award exams race, the obama presidency and the election of donald trump. and on bock tv afterwards at 10 p.m. craig shirley discusses life and political career of newt gingrich with tom davis and we wrap up our prime time programming at 11, with source ceo and found oar
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obama and someone like donald trump can just come in and easily exploit what i think just waiting to be exploited. one of the things i talk about in the book that i had not realized that american patriotism was nationalism until a to turkey and was about turkish nationalism. this is one of those things i was very surprised about in retrospect. was one of the most interesting things about the history and country but i was at some level looking down on it. then i had one of those powerful days where i realize that american patriotism and turkish patriotism were similar and i was quite blind to where i was coming from. >> did that then change your view and turkish nationalism? >> i think yes, first it reminded me that i am someone even though i did not think i was, who can look down on foreign countries and this is where think national identity is nash very important. we don't think of it is looking down but we do, it's like these poor people who haven't quite gotten to where we are, but because we believe they can do it in this american cheerleader way we can help them along we don't t
obama and someone like donald trump can just come in and easily exploit what i think just waiting to be exploited. one of the things i talk about in the book that i had not realized that american patriotism was nationalism until a to turkey and was about turkish nationalism. this is one of those things i was very surprised about in retrospect. was one of the most interesting things about the history and country but i was at some level looking down on it. then i had one of those powerful days...
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president obama decided to look beyond president karzai to the next afghan president following the elections in early april. each of the presidential candidates indicated a willingness to sign the bilateral security agreement and any of them would likely be a more reliable partner than president karzai. much continues to be at stake for the national security and allies around the world for the regional stability and of course the afghan people. the letter by afghan parliamentarians highlighted the extraordinary changes in the past decade or afghan women. she points out that 12 years ago was prohibited. and the prohibition was enforced here ^-caret. she was nearly abandoned in earth simply because in the afghanistan of that time a female child had no future. in the post-taliban afghanistan she became a senior leader in the afghan parliament. she wrote it has been a difficult journey marked by blood and violence that we have made gains in achievement which would not have been possible without the generous support of the international community and especially the american people. to tell the ba
president obama decided to look beyond president karzai to the next afghan president following the elections in early april. each of the presidential candidates indicated a willingness to sign the bilateral security agreement and any of them would likely be a more reliable partner than president karzai. much continues to be at stake for the national security and allies around the world for the regional stability and of course the afghan people. the letter by afghan parliamentarians highlighted...
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the tea party knocked barack obama for a loop and took control of the house. tax-cut scum of fights over the budget, debt ceiling, deficit-reduction ceiling, deficit-reduction, the awesome a bin laden raid, egypt, libya. how he made the decisions he made and why he took the actions that he took but also explained this is done in a way of the theory he could make the 2012 race of choice between different ideologies and approaches to governments and different sets of values. he was it tethered to the idea about a choice. . .
the tea party knocked barack obama for a loop and took control of the house. tax-cut scum of fights over the budget, debt ceiling, deficit-reduction ceiling, deficit-reduction, the awesome a bin laden raid, egypt, libya. how he made the decisions he made and why he took the actions that he took but also explained this is done in a way of the theory he could make the 2012 race of choice between different ideologies and approaches to governments and different sets of values. he was it tethered to...
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but they haven't on human rights which is not very comprehensive for we are looking for because it is obama. >> because she was the president of curtis stands she we are hoping with her that we can work more for human rights. >> so curtis and has a democracy she was democratically elected and that is the us representative. >> should the us and other international do that or do we only work through the organization quick. >> engagement to be condition -based. so you guys lobby for your rights but they are not listening to you otherwise you have a very good relationship and the more the engagement is on the basis the more normalize the situation becomes then the taliban thinks they are okay but we didn't have to work with people. but obviously met the taliban. but it goes against the international standards that is what they are looking for and that is why sometimes they are giving the message because they want your money. but there was an ongoing conflict in afghanistan since 1979. that's a long time. we were children that happened. >> i was born after that. [laughter] so what is a peaceful
but they haven't on human rights which is not very comprehensive for we are looking for because it is obama. >> because she was the president of curtis stands she we are hoping with her that we can work more for human rights. >> so curtis and has a democracy she was democratically elected and that is the us representative. >> should the us and other international do that or do we only work through the organization quick. >> engagement to be condition -based. so you guys...
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immediately after obama's election in 2008i decided i wanted to take a look at the democrats over the same time period. many of my books have covered the same time period from the 60's through the present day. and i kind of come across democratic policy and passing it on and i wanted to unify it and look at the obama administration. and since the 1970's, the democratic parties have a strong grass-roots base growing out of the entire war movement of the vietnam era. they have far fewer people particularly in the obama administration with a pentagon our defense background recall that bill clinton's last defense secretary was a republican and sure enough when obama took office, he appointed as his defense secretary robert gates, bush's final defense secretary and then a couple of the other leading job as in the obama administration went to the career military people, general jones who was the national security adviser, dennis blair who was in charge of the intelligence for the top jobs in his attic ministration. so you have a democratic president but without the same kind of colewort the
immediately after obama's election in 2008i decided i wanted to take a look at the democrats over the same time period. many of my books have covered the same time period from the 60's through the present day. and i kind of come across democratic policy and passing it on and i wanted to unify it and look at the obama administration. and since the 1970's, the democratic parties have a strong grass-roots base growing out of the entire war movement of the vietnam era. they have far fewer people...
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i'm sure my father wanted senator john mccain more than obama in the 2008 election because mccain has that same mentality. if anybody is educated you know this is extremely naÏve on clinton and obama of course but the point remains the same that he wasn't afraid he saw a guy who was dying to take advantage of a crisis that is exactly what happened. which then brings us to the invasion which should have to happen again there is no imperial japan it was a group of 400 men they were not the taliban of the religious leadership of american pakistan to take over in the 1990s and even not most of them it was a small group of men from saudi arabia and egypt who were exiled to afghanistan and had organized the attack they are to the degree but mostly it was organized in the united states and germany and spain and malaysia you don't need a safe haven to make a phone call. there is an argument inside the bush administration how to exploit the situation and how badly to conflate the two different groups together but they were determined to go to war when they could have negotiated. the taliban a
i'm sure my father wanted senator john mccain more than obama in the 2008 election because mccain has that same mentality. if anybody is educated you know this is extremely naÏve on clinton and obama of course but the point remains the same that he wasn't afraid he saw a guy who was dying to take advantage of a crisis that is exactly what happened. which then brings us to the invasion which should have to happen again there is no imperial japan it was a group of 400 men they were not the...
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even if president obama is -- is elected to a second term. in fact, i suppose on this sort of nixon goes to china principle you could say president obama elect romney would be in a better position to surprise some people, many of whom unpleasantly by committing himself to ctp ratification. in any event, that is a melancholy note that i feel should be struck at the end of this conversation before we go to an open discussion. >> let me first thank the panel for all the enthusiasm they shared with us today. and let me now open the floor to questions. can i ask if you could identify yourself and affiliation and put a short question forward. you should have a microphone coming up. >> i'm director of the foreign policy at brookings. i haven't been drinking this morning but i was served up by suzanne and bob analysis of the situation in iran that completely shared but raised the question, one to suzanne which is is there nothing that can be done on the negotiation front to head off what looks like an inevitable military confrontation? and to bob, si
even if president obama is -- is elected to a second term. in fact, i suppose on this sort of nixon goes to china principle you could say president obama elect romney would be in a better position to surprise some people, many of whom unpleasantly by committing himself to ctp ratification. in any event, that is a melancholy note that i feel should be struck at the end of this conversation before we go to an open discussion. >> let me first thank the panel for all the enthusiasm they...
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of barack obama where these kind of crieses and someone like donald trump can just come in and easily exploit what think is a kind of nationalism that was just wait to be exploited and this is one of the things that i talk about as well in the book, that i hadn't realized that american patriotism was nationalism until i went to turkey and was learning about turkish nationality. had never occurred to me that it was nationalism. i mean, this, again, is one of those things i'm very surprised about in retrospect. i was fascinated by turkish nationalism i thought it was just -- it was one of the most interesting things bet the history and about the country but i was on some level looking down on it and then i had this really -- again, one of those powerful days where i realized that american patriotism and turnishing patriotism, both nationalism were so similar and i had been quite blind to where i was coming from. >> host: did that then change your view on turkish nationalism? >> guest: i think that it has just made me -- first of all reminded me to -- that it am someone even though i did
of barack obama where these kind of crieses and someone like donald trump can just come in and easily exploit what think is a kind of nationalism that was just wait to be exploited and this is one of the things that i talk about as well in the book, that i hadn't realized that american patriotism was nationalism until i went to turkey and was learning about turkish nationality. had never occurred to me that it was nationalism. i mean, this, again, is one of those things i'm very surprised about...
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so obama has a strategy for re- election which is encouraging even more people to stop looking for what. >> but the question is not whether the and employment rate is 8.1% or 8.3%. the question is whether it is better than when the president took office? >> absolutely not. when you have the worst employment participation in 30 years -- in the three and a half years of president obama tenure, gdp growth has been 1.5%. historically, for the last seven years, it has been 3.7%. we have had less than half the historical average pared by contrast, in 1984, gdp growth was 7.2% print what does that mean when the economy is growing, when small businesses are prospering? they are creating new jobs and people are able to find work. it creates opportunity for everyone. what we have unfortunately is small business after small business facing crushing uncertainty. the single biggest question you hear from business leaders is they don't know between obamacare and dodd-frank and the offshore drilling moratorium in texas. but entrepreneurs expressed to me is the sense of great uncertainty. what will the
so obama has a strategy for re- election which is encouraging even more people to stop looking for what. >> but the question is not whether the and employment rate is 8.1% or 8.3%. the question is whether it is better than when the president took office? >> absolutely not. when you have the worst employment participation in 30 years -- in the three and a half years of president obama tenure, gdp growth has been 1.5%. historically, for the last seven years, it has been 3.7%. we have...
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was elected, i think the united states and especially liberal americans kind of decided to turn the page on the iraq war. it was so much easier to be optimistic about obama's term starting and to kind of forget that, you know, this war -- which we had all been against in the first place -- had really affected millions and millions of people and left a country shatteredded and, you know, started the conflict that we see now in syria. and so they felt and i felt that our generation especially who were young when that war started needed to really look at what the effects of this war were, the human fallout. and that would be iraqi refugees, half of whom were live anything syria at the time and half of whom were living in jordan. and most of the refugees in syria were in damascus. it was a very different syria at the time. this was about three months before everything started falling apart. and we weren't there to report on the syrian government or what they were up to, we were just there to talk to iraqi refugees. the other wrinkle in this story was that sarah, the lead journalist, dec
was elected, i think the united states and especially liberal americans kind of decided to turn the page on the iraq war. it was so much easier to be optimistic about obama's term starting and to kind of forget that, you know, this war -- which we had all been against in the first place -- had really affected millions and millions of people and left a country shatteredded and, you know, started the conflict that we see now in syria. and so they felt and i felt that our generation especially who...
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this book was sort of, you know -- a year or so ago when barack obama was elected president, there was a lot of themes, you know, hope, change and a lot of other things. one of the things they would -- but when we started talking about black people, the discussion was black people think this. and black people -- it was one black people as terry talking about as him representing black people and black people representing this. this book was meant to turn the camera lens the other way and look at the crowd and to say -- who are these folks. and what do they think. and what they came up they think a lot of different things. and so we've talked to union workers. we've talked to, you know, ex-offenders. we talked to people who are business owners who don't want the taxes cut. and so it's a lot of people who have a lot of different opinions about the world. one of the chapters -- the first chapter -- the chapter that i'll read from, we both did personal chapters. my personal chapter was about my own family. it was about my family centered around my grandmother. daisy mae francis and our fami
this book was sort of, you know -- a year or so ago when barack obama was elected president, there was a lot of themes, you know, hope, change and a lot of other things. one of the things they would -- but when we started talking about black people, the discussion was black people think this. and black people -- it was one black people as terry talking about as him representing black people and black people representing this. this book was meant to turn the camera lens the other way and look at...
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and i thought as my responsibility and certainly in my conversation with event president-elect obama, that's what we discussed, that he would have to focus on economic crisis here at home for very obvious reasons, but i would have to focus on in terms of the crisis of our reputation and our leadership around the world. what i found, steve, is that in the same holdings, research and analysis that i've read, people wanted what we want. they wanted good jobs. they wanted security. their values as they expressed it to researchers were very much in line with what the united states has always stood for. but they had grown either negative about us or in different. it was especially notable that young people in many parts of the world didn't have an opinion about who the united states was as a nation but then you all about our culture. they could sing the songs of our pop stars. they could act out the scenes are more popular movies, but they didn't really know that the united states had saved the world from fascism, and world war ii, had long cold war, defeated international communism, have m
and i thought as my responsibility and certainly in my conversation with event president-elect obama, that's what we discussed, that he would have to focus on economic crisis here at home for very obvious reasons, but i would have to focus on in terms of the crisis of our reputation and our leadership around the world. what i found, steve, is that in the same holdings, research and analysis that i've read, people wanted what we want. they wanted good jobs. they wanted security. their values as...
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and then president obama got elected. many people thought, okay. he is going to end the wars. let's give him a chance. let's give him a honeymoon. other people then got caught up in a financial crisis and had a focus on issues here at home. for whatever reason the anti-war movement fizzled out. but there is another reason, and that is partisan politics. because many people who are sensitive to the killing of innocents overseas might find themselves in the democratic party and might find themselves supporters of president obama. at this point might find themselves very anxious to see him reelected. and so they don't speak out about a killing spree that president carter said in a new york times op-ed recently, would have never been allowed in any other administration. and so we are allowing this administration to get away with something that is murder. and we have to build a movement that is not attached to a political party. we have to build a movement that is attached to values, to morals, that says to whenever government is in power that we want to relate to the rest of the w
and then president obama got elected. many people thought, okay. he is going to end the wars. let's give him a chance. let's give him a honeymoon. other people then got caught up in a financial crisis and had a focus on issues here at home. for whatever reason the anti-war movement fizzled out. but there is another reason, and that is partisan politics. because many people who are sensitive to the killing of innocents overseas might find themselves in the democratic party and might find...
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had been elect elected. when barack obama was a presidential candidate he made a visit as you will recall to afghanistan. so maybe you were even on this trip. he made the decision to rather than first meets president karzai to stop off first in jalalabad and say hello to the governor. he wanted to be photographed leaving american troops on the field and he wanted to go where everybody went so they had to find a place that was reasonably secure and have an airfield big enough for the plaintive land, and therefore they took them to jalalabaintojalalabad to me to n soldiers. however, they said while you are here the first thing you must do is agree to the governor to embrace him and that was the picture that the afghans saw of barack obama. they took credit for that joke. that story had tremendous length because people interpreted that story in a number of ways. other places saw as people said to me if barack obama first comes to see the governor before he goes to see hamid karzai what does that mean? it means
had been elect elected. when barack obama was a presidential candidate he made a visit as you will recall to afghanistan. so maybe you were even on this trip. he made the decision to rather than first meets president karzai to stop off first in jalalabad and say hello to the governor. he wanted to be photographed leaving american troops on the field and he wanted to go where everybody went so they had to find a place that was reasonably secure and have an airfield big enough for the plaintive...
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our two countries agree that we had to await the outcome of india's recent elections before charting a new course in our own relations. in its strong showing of the congress party prime minister singh the new mandate and the president obama support strong support for strengthening ties with india, we think open the way for a newly invigorated partnership. so in my remarks today i will first two briefly review the recent history of the u.s. india relationship and how we got to where we are today. second, i will discuss our plans for a robust engagement with india. and then i will conclude by is an essential question of your program today which is why india and are the u.s. and india really natural allies? sulphur is how we got here and i won't spend too much time on this because i know all of you are very familiar with it. secretary of state clinton give a major speech on india about a week and a half ago at the u.s. india business council entitled to u.s. india, three-point know, the future of u.s. india relations. and she described the three phases and relations. the first, 1.0 last
our two countries agree that we had to await the outcome of india's recent elections before charting a new course in our own relations. in its strong showing of the congress party prime minister singh the new mandate and the president obama support strong support for strengthening ties with india, we think open the way for a newly invigorated partnership. so in my remarks today i will first two briefly review the recent history of the u.s. india relationship and how we got to where we are...
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by this time president obama had been elected. people still in 2012 when i went for still talking about this story. when barack obama was a presidential candidate he made a visit to afghanistan. >> i recall very well. i was an adviser to his campaign. >> maybe you were even on this trip. >> know i was not on the trip. >> he made the decision rather than to make president karzai to stop and jalalabad and say hi to governor sherzai. i don't know if you remember this. >> that was not the decision he thought he made. >> what was the decision he thought he made? >> he had no idea where shares i was -- sherzai was. he want to be photographed meeting american troops in the field and he didn't want to go to bob graham for everybody went so they had to find a place that was reasonably secure and had an air filled big enough for his plane to land. that was the picture that afghans saw of barack obama meeting the governor of nangarhar. >> the governor took credit for that joke. he took credit for that joke. that story had tremendous legs bec
by this time president obama had been elected. people still in 2012 when i went for still talking about this story. when barack obama was a presidential candidate he made a visit to afghanistan. >> i recall very well. i was an adviser to his campaign. >> maybe you were even on this trip. >> know i was not on the trip. >> he made the decision rather than to make president karzai to stop and jalalabad and say hi to governor sherzai. i don't know if you remember this....
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this is tantamount to obama allow wayne herman cain to decide his political strategy for reelection. it was not one of the smartest things and as soon as the coup was staged they instituted a dictatorship aimed to at making a more radical form of islam, than and a lot of the land and realizing that bhutto would not go way that is the difference between this country and pakistan. if you run for president and you lose come a two things have been for you should make note of this. you get at talk show. second, you get a best seller. if you wonder how to succeed with the typical american success story is to run for president. with pakistan bad thing this could happen you could be a killer forced into exile. they probably would have exiled him but they knew he would not disappear from the scene but he staged the trial and accused bhutto of murder not too late did he understand his life was really in danger somebody interviewed him in prison and said what you doing? he said i'm spending my time reading about the napoleon figure but it had a tragic outcome because of what was enacted of judi
this is tantamount to obama allow wayne herman cain to decide his political strategy for reelection. it was not one of the smartest things and as soon as the coup was staged they instituted a dictatorship aimed to at making a more radical form of islam, than and a lot of the land and realizing that bhutto would not go way that is the difference between this country and pakistan. if you run for president and you lose come a two things have been for you should make note of this. you get at talk...
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so i spent some time and by this time the president obama had been elected and people were still talking about this. when he was a presidential candidate he talked about this. and so if he made the decision, to go meet him and say hello to the governor. i don't know if you remember that. >> a number that is not a decision that he thought he made. >> he had no idea who he was. but he wanted to talk about meeting the american troops in the field and he didn't want to go where everybody went. so they had to find a place that was reasonably secure and had an airfield big enough for his plane to land. therefore to meet the american soldiers. however, they said, while you are here come the first thing you must do is meet the government. and so that was the picture that afghans saw of barack obama meaning the governor of kandahar. >> that is part of the same story. that story was tremendous. people treat that in a number of ways. and so this includes the a group of people in a number of other places as well. barack obama first comes to see him and what does that mean? that means does he want hi
so i spent some time and by this time the president obama had been elected and people were still talking about this. when he was a presidential candidate he talked about this. and so if he made the decision, to go meet him and say hello to the governor. i don't know if you remember that. >> a number that is not a decision that he thought he made. >> he had no idea who he was. but he wanted to talk about meeting the american troops in the field and he didn't want to go where...
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barack obama as the first african-american decent inclusive person would also elect donald trump a few years later how was that possible. and it kind of hit me all at once if you've seen the movie unusual suspects, but at the end of the cop looks at the bulletin board is all makes sense kevin spacey that is how i solved the obama presidency. the things that made me most frustrated was the ability to get the popular agenda through, so difficult for the three forces that contributed to the environment where donald trump when. and that was a story that i wanted to tell about how politics changed during the obama presidency. how the republican party became radicalized at how facebook and twitter changed how people communicate and the media itself have changed and how we became a country that could believe in conspiracy theories and promulgated and how all of those things. i wanted to tell that story not just to revisit the worst parts of my job becaus my top pick ofm for me to write, but with the hope of possibly learning lessons to extract some things. not just donald trump, but the idea
barack obama as the first african-american decent inclusive person would also elect donald trump a few years later how was that possible. and it kind of hit me all at once if you've seen the movie unusual suspects, but at the end of the cop looks at the bulletin board is all makes sense kevin spacey that is how i solved the obama presidency. the things that made me most frustrated was the ability to get the popular agenda through, so difficult for the three forces that contributed to the...
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i am not a member of a political party but if obama's opponent said won a last election, romney and ryan made it clear they would call u.s. funding for the stuff. have a child more per woman in the world we would be head to do to 16 million by the end of the century. have a child fuhrer which would happen if we made contraception universally available we would be headed to 6 billion by the end of the century. that is a huge difference taking us back in the direction of sustainability. .. >> the number of abortions would dp to 14 million a year. that's still a lot of abortions, but that's 36 million fewer. tsa the best anti-abortion program i've ever heard. >> well, you've given us a lot of detail as well as science this the book, and i think you're kind of catching that from the discussion, what he's talking about here. but with i wanted to go back, you started off in jerusalem, in the holy land, by three major religions. so, you know, $8 billion a year to stallize global populations -- stabilize global populations doesn't sound that hard to reach given our global economy, but religion,
i am not a member of a political party but if obama's opponent said won a last election, romney and ryan made it clear they would call u.s. funding for the stuff. have a child more per woman in the world we would be head to do to 16 million by the end of the century. have a child fuhrer which would happen if we made contraception universally available we would be headed to 6 billion by the end of the century. that is a huge difference taking us back in the direction of sustainability. .....
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when president obama was elected he was interested in you being the chief officer. with your family, that's not the way you went. what would your priorities be?? [inaudible] i think there is a lot we can do. first and foremost, investing in big problems that we need to solve whether it's alternative energy or bio synthetic materials, new materials. there's a lot we can do as a country in understanding the research that happens in universities now in materials. i'm a material scientist. maybe i'm biased. going back to physically creating new kinds of things is as important as the web and [inaudible] me saying this i work at cicso now. it's important look at physical innovations as well as technical innovation. [inaudible] sponsor large-scale research projects working with research project. companies benefit from that. it creates something new come ling out of that. that would be something the president would have to have as a mandate from a technology point of view. >> we won't get into the question whether you can have it all. [laughter] which is we talked about her
when president obama was elected he was interested in you being the chief officer. with your family, that's not the way you went. what would your priorities be?? [inaudible] i think there is a lot we can do. first and foremost, investing in big problems that we need to solve whether it's alternative energy or bio synthetic materials, new materials. there's a lot we can do as a country in understanding the research that happens in universities now in materials. i'm a material scientist. maybe...
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election, black man gets worst job in the united states. [laughter] but it means the work we have been doing all these years has paid off. it doesn't mean that work is over. there is more work to be done but no one can believe that barack obama would be present of united states had it not been for the naacp and many of our organizations and many groups and organizations for the work done by these people in these groups over the last several years so it was like vindication that all of this labor, all of this labor has been worthwhile if we were happy to be a will to do it and see the results of it. he spoke at our convention in 19 on line. i'm sorry 1999 our centennial convention. is that right? 2009, my wife is here in the front row. [laughter] and she serves many wonderful purposes. one of them is dreck being me. >> i am glad she did that because i couldn't get it right either. >> in a way he spoke to our convention in 2009 and we were so happy to see him. he spoke to us as senator obama. he spoke to less as candidate obama running for th
election, black man gets worst job in the united states. [laughter] but it means the work we have been doing all these years has paid off. it doesn't mean that work is over. there is more work to be done but no one can believe that barack obama would be present of united states had it not been for the naacp and many of our organizations and many groups and organizations for the work done by these people in these groups over the last several years so it was like vindication that all of this...
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we had this discussion, romney/obama. and yet as was said, secretary clinton's trip, and the more shaping power, that the president makes, who is the secretary of defense and secretary of state? like the wine from pulp fiction. personality matters. goes a long way. look at the difference between secretary rumsfeld versus gates and on the one hand you will never be able to draw out from candidate who are you going to appoint you can get a sense of the type of people they would appoint by asking what are your examples of best secretary of defense or best secretary of state? i know what obama would say. i don't know what romney would say or gates who served under obama. >> interesting to know that to get a better indicator where they want to see the department go. >> moderator of meet the press. >> i am at brookings. can they do both? >> we should mention the broad budget environment. we have a situation that backs up marvin's point because mid romney has been specific about wanting to increase defense but not about increasi
we had this discussion, romney/obama. and yet as was said, secretary clinton's trip, and the more shaping power, that the president makes, who is the secretary of defense and secretary of state? like the wine from pulp fiction. personality matters. goes a long way. look at the difference between secretary rumsfeld versus gates and on the one hand you will never be able to draw out from candidate who are you going to appoint you can get a sense of the type of people they would appoint by asking...